Stafford Poole
The Reverend Stafford Poole Catholic priest and research historian | |
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| Known for | President of the former St. John's Seminary College |
| Notable work | writings about the history of the Catholic Church in Mexico |
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Stafford Poole,
Virgin of Guadalupe. [2]
Early life
Poole was born in
Archdiocese of Los Angeles for high-school boys who were considering the priesthood. [3]
Studies
Upon his graduation in 1947 he joined the
St. Louis University.[3]
Although his focus was American and European history, Poole's
Provincial Councils of the Catholic Church in Mexico.[3]
Authorship
Poole wrote an article in 1964 for the
United States Conference of Bishops
and other authorities for the next twenty years.
He continued to take an interest in the council which he had studied for his dissertation and wrote several articles on it for scholarly journals with
Latin work of the speeches Las Casas delivered at the Valladolid debate of 1550-1551. This was published in 1974 by Northern Illinois University Press. A second edition appeared in 1992 and is still in print. [3]
Poole also researched the life of
Archbishop of Mexico, who had convoked and presided at the Third Mexican Council. This biography was published by the University of California Press in 1987. A second, revised edition was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2011 and a Spanish translation by the Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico. His research into the archbishop's life caused him to be interested in that of the prelate's mentor, Juan de Ovando
. In 2004 the University of Oklahoma Press published the biography, Juan de Ovando: Governing the Spanish Empire in the Reign of Philip II.
In 1971 Poole was assigned to teach
Archdiocese of Los Angeles
. He was appointed President of the College in 1980, but resigned in 1984 due to a disagreement with the Archdiocese about structural changes in the school.
Guadalupan studies
After his retirement from active teaching in 1990, Poole became the archivist for the Western Province of his Congregation.
In addition to that he was able to work on an interest he had long felt, on the history of the
apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe. For this he undertook the study of Classical Nahuatl
and published several works in that field.
Poole's writings regarding Our Lady of Guadalupe include the books Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797, an English translation of
Aztec man to whom the Virgin is believed to have appeared. Poole opposed the efforts to have him declared a saint
, in which he was ultimately unsuccessful.
References
- ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF). Retrieved on 2008-05-15.
- ^ "Fr. Stafford Poole C.M." Ford and Young Funeral Home. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
- ^ a b c d Schroeder, Susan. "Seminaires and Writing the History of New Spain: An Interview with Stafford Poole, C.M." The Americas. 69:2 (October 2012), 237-254.
List of works
- Poole, Stafford, C.M. (1965). Seminary in Crisis. Herder & Herder.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - De las Casas, Bartolomé (1992). In Defense of the Indians. Northern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-87580-556-6., foreword by Martin Marty, translated by Stafford Poole [1]
- Poole, Stafford (1995). Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Origins and Sources of a Mexican National Symbol, 1531-1797. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-1623-0.
- The Story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega's Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649. Stanford University Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8047-3483-7. Edited and Translated by Lisa Sousa, Stafford Poole, C.M., and James Lockhart [2]
- Poole, Stafford (2004). Juan de Ovando: Governing the Spanish Empire in the Reign of Philip II. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-3592-2. [3]
- Poole, Stafford (2006). The Guadalupan Controversies in Mexico. Stanford University Press Books. ISBN 978-0-8047-5252-7. [4]
- Nahuatl Theater, Volume 2: Our Lady of Guadalupe. University of Oklahoma Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-8061-3794-0. Edited by Barry D. Sell, Louise M. Burkhart, Stafford Poole [5]
- Poole, Stafford (2011). Pedro Moya de Contreras: Catholic Reform and Royal Power in New Spain, 1571-1591 (2nd ed.). University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-4171-8. [6]
- Burkhart, Louise M. (2011). Aztecs on Stage: Religious Theater in Colonial Mexico. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-4209-8. Translated by: Barry D. Sell & Stafford Poole [7]
- Idea of a New General History of North America: An Account of Colonial Native Mexico by Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci. University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. Stafford Poole (Translator), Susan Schroeder Ph.D (Foreword)[8]
External sources
- Missouri State University Press "Biography" [9]
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